‘Thriller about a tough man doing hard sums’ – Weekend Film Guide 18th July

Weekend Film Guide 18th July

Well it’s the weekend again, and that can only mean one thing – glorious revolution and smashing the patriarchy.

Although, that sounds like a lot of work. Let’s just watch films instead.

Saturday

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Channel 4 21.15

Searing indictment of the paucity of local advertising space in modern America.

Jackie Channel 4 23.30

Natalie Portman stars in this Oscar-nominated biopic of the classic seventies comic for girls

Blade Runner 2049 ITV2 21.00

Grumpy android looks for another grumpy android in the rain while Jean-Michel Jarre plays endlessly in the background.

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Go on. You get special bonus films for Fridays. It’s ever so nice.

Sunday

Dances with Wolves Sony Movies 12.00

Kevin Costner gets his arse out and dances with a wolf. Kev got his arse out a lot in the nineties. Heady days.

To Sir, With Love Sony Movies Classic 14.30

Sidney Poitier! Lulu! Together at last. Thirty-something actor-types play hefty-looking schoolkids whose life is turned around when a major Hollywood star turns up to teach them about not being ‘sluttish’ and addressing each other by their surnames.

X-Men: Days of Future Past Channel 4 22.00

Wolverine travels back in time to make sure his Mum kisses his Dad at Prom.

Netflix Film of the weekend

The Equalizer

Thriller about a tough man doing hard sums.

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